Talk:Third Silesian War

This and that....

Very good. A much needed article and a more than good start.  :) I'd suggest a few things:

Lead

1. words like extremely....not necessary. In the lead and elsewhere.
2. probably mention status quo ante bellum in the lead, as well as the treaty, and perhaps a sentence on Austria's take-aways too. The election of Joseph was a top concern of Maria Theresa's.

Background

1. While the Seven Years.... Seven Years' War should be linked. Frederick, Maria Theresa also. First time in the body of the article
2. I think mention that the British king's nephew was FRrederick the great. So the relatives in the Landgraviate of Kesse Kassel and Brunswick were also Frederick's relatives.

Strategies

1. I suggest "German states" or something relating to Holy Roman Empire. It is surprising how many people confuse modern and 18th century Germany (and Austria!)
2. The Austrian coalition sought a total partition of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Course

1. I'm never happy with simple years as the sub headers. How about Campaign of 1756, etc.?
2. Keith and Frederick would make for? take?
3. Saxon and Austrian armies were unprepared for Frederick's preemptive strike.
4. Possibly mention the disastrous incorporation of the Saxon Army.
5. Last sentence of 1756 needs a citation (same in next 4 paragraphs).

Bohemian Campaign

1. hoping to inflict a decisive defeat.... seeking a decisive defeat of
2. the failure to take Bohemia meant the ruin of Frederick's strategy and he had no realistic prospect of a march on Vienna.
3. is it Von Daun, von Daun, or Daun. (I usually use Daun). But be consistent. The biography of him refers to Daun, as does the German one.
4. By a strong victory, do you mean decisive? I'd say that instead of strong.
5. recurring difficulties with logistics greatly limited ....recurring logistical difficulties limited (greatly/extremely etc are considered weasel words)
6. Hadik and his hussars abandoned the city
7. the commander of the garrison surrendered Breslau (no however)
8. Austrian and French forces still within Breslau....

Winter maneuvers

1. link Field Marshal if it hasn't already been.
2. predicting correctly that no new Russian advance would come until the spring.
3. Over the winter, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, now commander of Hanover's army, launched a series of offensives that....

Battle of Kunersdorf

1. Miracle of the House of Brandenburg. Probably needs to be clarified that this was the first of the miracles that preserved ....

Generally

1. Make sure that you have citations on everything....no uncited paragraphs, the section on 1760s has some empty paragraphs

Captions should have better explanations, if you can. I'll finish up tomorrow. auntieruth (talk) 21:19, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Thank you! I've made a start on addressing these issues, and I'll continue tonight and tomorrow.-Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 01:14, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Oh, I forgot to mention: just use your American spelling. not to worry about the British version. American English is acceptable on any subject in Wikipedia; the problem is when the spellings are mixed. auntieruth (talk) 13:19, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

Luvaas (1966) or Luvaas (2009)?

There are citations to Luvaas 2009, but the one in the references is Luvaas 1966? Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:55, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

It's 1966; the 2009 was a reprint, but I ended up citing the original edition. Thanks for catching it! -Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 13:01, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Citation information

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• 16:51, 24 July 2020‎ PBS ‎ clean up EB1911 citations undo
• 17:06, 24 July 2020‎ Bryanrutherford0 Restoring information removed from citation

The version after my edit (Revision as of 16:51, 24 July 2020

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Refs Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Finck, Friedrich August von". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 873787655. External links Hannay, David McDowall (1911). "Seven Years' War" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). pp. 715–723.

The versions reverted to by user:Bryanrutherford0

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Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Finck, Friedrich August von". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 873787655. External links Hannay, David McDowall (1911). "Seven Years' War" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

@user:Bryanrutherford0 "Restoring information removed from citation" what information was removed that you wished to restore? -- PBS (talk) 17:52, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Actually, I didn't revert your edit, and I left your change to the external links untouched. The "before and after" you've posted above doesn't show the version of the citation you wrote, but rather shows the original version twice. The information I restored to the citation is the information present in the original version and absent in yours: namely, the place of publication, the wikilink to the publisher, and the OCLC. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 18:37, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

You did revert out most of the changes I made as is shown by this diff against edit before mine and diff against my edit. You reverted the change specifically the use of {{cite EB1911}} and the parameter |wstitle= in doing that you reverted to using an external url rather than an internal sister link.

For any third editor reading this, I suggest that they read the parallel discussion at Talk:Second Silesian War#Citation information. Rather than the two of us repeating the same conversation on this talk page, I will initiate the same compromise changes to this article. -- PBS (talk) 22:33, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Open Street Map

I've removed the large OSM battle map that was added to the beginning of the article. While having the locations of all the notable battles on one map seems like it might be helpful, the fact that this template puts those markers on a modern street map, with modern political borders, highways, cities, etc. seems to me to mostly defeat the purpose. The region just looks too different today from what it was in the 1760s for this to be especially informative. If anyone can find (or make?) a period map with the notable locales marked, then that probably would be worth adding! -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 16:21, 2 August 2021 (UTC)